How the "P.E." Ended Her
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Career
MR. Thomas Nicholls, of Vila, New Hebrides, has supplied the follow ing information: — rE vessel “Percy Edwards” arrived at Noumea about 1897, under the com mand of Captain Julius Peterson.
The remainder of the expedition dis banded and some of them remained in New Caledonia for some time. Captain Peterson went to the New Hebrides, where he settled, first at Tanna and, later, at Pentecost and Santo. At the latter place, he made a large plantation, which he afterwards sold to Kerr Bros.
The “Percy Edwards” was bought by the Societe Francaise des Nouvelles Hebrides. This company refitted her ana renamed her the “Jeanette”, and usea her for recruiting in the New Hebrides.
When she had outlived her use she was beached in the southern end of Vila Harbour, near Colardeau’s plantation, where time and hurricanes gradually broke her up. She has now completely disappeared.